News: New peers making their mark in the House of Lords

63 days ago - Latest news and comment from Britain | guardian.co.uk

Floella Benjamin, Sue Nye, Shireen Ritchie and Sir Ken Macdonald QC among 54 working peers in a dissolution honours listFloella Benjamin, 60 Born in Trinidad, Benjamin acted i...

News: New parliamentary expenses evidence passed to CPS

122 days ago - Latest news and comment from Britain | guardian.co.uk

Scotland Yard gives new folder of evidence to Crown Prosecution ServiceScotland Yard passed a new file of evidence against a parliamentarian suspected of abusing expenses to p...

News: Letters: Prisoners should have the vote

123 days ago - World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk

Over 70,000 people could be unlawfully disenfranchised in the general election. Britain is one of the few countries left in Europe with a blanket ban on sentenced prisoners vo...

News: Lord Ashcroft affair: Eight questions for William Hague

134 days ago - Latest news and comment from Britain | guardian.co.uk

How much did the shadow foreign secretary know about Ashcroft's non-dom status?1. Why did the then Tory chief whip, James Arbuthnot, help Michael Ashcroft broker a deal that w...

News: Charged parliamentarians: 'We totally refute any charges'

175 days ago - Latest news and comment from Britain | guardian.co.uk

Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Lord Hanningfield issue statements saying they refute all charges as Hanningfield stands down from frontbench dutiesJoint statemen...

News: Full statement of criminal charges brought against the MPs and peer

175 days ago - Latest news and comment from Britain | guardian.co.uk

Keir Starmer's statement, detailing two charges against Elliot Morely, three against David Chaytor, two for Jim Devine, and six against Lord HanningfieldFollowing widespread c...

News: From the archive: Fleecing at the airport in foreign languages

176 days ago - World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk

Originally published on 5 February 1968Competition to fleece foreign tourists at London Airport has become so intense that Heathrow's multilingual, multipriced taxi drivers ar...

News: Lord Moynihan defends plan for London Olympic drug searches

206 days ago - Guardian UK News

• BOA chairman denies proposal would allow random searches• Athletes' chief had called prospect 'utterly disastrous'Plans to allow police to search athletes' rooms at the ...

News: Police hand over more files on expenses

219 days ago - Guardian UK News

Two more sets of evidence against politicians given to Crown Prosecution ServiceScotland Yard handed two more files of evidence against politicians suspected of abusing their ...

News: Letters: Royal mail

222 days ago - Guardian UK News

Your front-page article (17 December) is far too critical of Prince Charles's letter writing. Surely it's a positive thing that he continues to engage in the epistolary art, a...